Wednesday, 28 April 2004

Six things to like in Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005

ADT 2005 has many powerful new features that others will demonstrate better than I but these are a few simple, but useful, enhancements I've found worthwhile. Not "big ticket items" but things I use constantly:
(click on thumbnails for a larger image)1) Space Creation Options:
Insert: "Traditional" ADT space placement.
Rectangle; Select 2 points to create a rectangular shape.
Polygon: Allows you to draw irregular shapes, including arc segments, while creating the space.

2) Space grips: These allow quick editing of existing shapes:
~ Add or remove Vertices.
~ Drag edge with dimension input.
~ Add Vertex & create new straight edge.
~ Add Vertex & create new arc edge.
~ I have also noticed that merged spaces are a lot cleaner as the redundant vertices that used to be left where aligned edges overlapped are no longer created.

4) Maximise Layout Viewport: Click to have a layout viewport grow to fill the work area for editing. Zoom & pan to edit as if model space. Click again & it reverts to the previous size on the layout. This is great when editing in layouts which I prefer.

5) Select Similar: Pick one object, Right Click>Select Similar (or CTRL+Shift+A) & all objects of the same style on the same layer will be selected. This is a great time saver.

6) Face UCS: Pick the face & the UCS is aligned to that face then allows choice of origin and rotation.

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Six things to like in Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005

ADT 2005 has many powerful new features that others will demonstrate better than I but these are a few simple, but useful, enhancements I've found worthwhile. Not "big ticket items" but things I use constantly:
(click on thumbnails for a larger image)1) Space Creation Options:
Insert: "Traditional" ADT space placement.
Rectangle; Select 2 points to create a rectangular shape.
Polygon: Allows you to draw irregular shapes, including arc segments, while creating the space.